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Prix LangCf by the French Academv, and the govern- is in the seaport city of Ic^uiqu^, an important ship-
ment conferred upon her the medal of honor, gold ping point for nitrate, with a nopulation of 47.000
medal of Madagascar and the rosette of an Officier (1918). In Iquique there are the mother church of
d^Acadhmie, in recognition of the signal services ren- the Immaculate Conception, three oth^r parishes,
dered to the sick andwounded of the French Army by and seven chapels. In the saltpetre district there are
her and her community, and for their devotion to the ten rural churches near the mines which the ^tstors
moral and religious progress of the Malgaches. visit periodically. One of these churches, that of
The vicariate now (1922) coimts a total of 108,(XX) Pica, nas five dependent churches. In the Andes with
baptized Catholics, 6 jsarishes in the city of Tanana- an elevation of 20(X) to 4500 meters above sea level
rive, 362 churches besides 50 houses where the faithful there are four parish churches, one of which is San
gather to practice the Faith^ 12 convents 6i women. Lorenzo de Tarapacd. These churches from date
44 missionary priests, 133 Sisters^ 40 Brothers, 20 of colonial expansion of the sixteenth and seventeenth
whom are Brothers of the Christian Schools, 1 semi- centuries and their monuments and stone buildings
nary, 35 seminarians, 1 college for boys with 290 stu- recall a state of ancient grandeur. The^r oweid
dents, 1 for girls, 119 elementary schools with 179 their importance to the great traffic wmch re-
teachers and 17,702 pupils, 1 hosmtal, 10 homes, 12 suited in the exploitation of these mines and those of
workhouses and 6 orphanages. The two civil nos- Bolivia. Now these places, with the exception of
pitals and 1 leprosy hospital admit the priestsji^hen it Pica and succursals, are poor villages of Indians, who
is requested. On 8 R'
of Arc was celebrated
rive.